To Mask or not to two - Mask Megathread cont.

Slow and steady approach? Like the monumental f* up from last summer with the delayed reopening until the middle of October to ensure we stay open? That worked out well didn't it? We've had the longest lockdown in the world, finally NEPHET & the government have learned from previous mistakes and just move on. People die at the end of the day and there will always be wingers like you. They are best ignored.

It's not so much that NPHET and Government have learned anything (Micheal is still advocating masks regardless and NPHET would gladly continue to deflect from the real issue of health - the 20 billion plus that's squandered every year without tangible improvements), it's that...

- the UK and now NI have moved first without the world ending or people dying on the streets

- the general population has had enough of it all. Everyone now knows someone who had Omicron over the last few months and where the effects were minimal/moderate and limited to a few days in almost all cases with no lasting impact. For most people, the threat and fear factor is gone from this personal or second hand experience

- the other issues of the nation - the other health issues that have gone untreated, the housing and rental crisis, the spiralling cost of living, the unsustainable cost of the pandemic payments and need to wind them down etc - can no longer be ignored or deflected "because Covid" and the Government's attention has been forced in those directions

As I said yesterday, the next Covid news will be the analysis of the responses and how much we got right, and how much we didn't (there's already been a few opinion pieces in the last few days), and the inevitable scandals that will emerge about how things were done and approved, ultimately leading to at least a Tribunal or two and several court cases.

In short, we have a lot more pressing things to worry about than what is now primarily a dose of the winter sniffles.

I was in the Guinness storehouse a few weeks back and about 10% of people had no masks on and only put them on in any crowded area, nobody working there confronted them. I went to the gift shop maskless, it is an open space the minute I was on the perimeter of the shop this angry little woman employee ran over to confront me in an aggressive manner, I just gave her a sarcastic smile and walked away.

I’m burning mine as will many more, the government will find it a lot harder to mask up society next time round.

Saw a couple shopping and one of them wearing a mask and the other wasn't. Really weird because why bother wearing a mask, unless it's N95 mask, but even if they wore a N95 mask, they're going home and exposing themselves to their partner who has no bother putting themselves at extra risk of catching covid anyways.

Do you think being vaccinated or already having covid stops you from getting it again?

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So poster asked this question

And you answer with that

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I would guess that neither of them really care about covid and the partner is only wearing one because they don’t want people confronting them/giving them dirty looks etc

Thats how it is for me and my partner anyway

It should remain in healthcare settings I think. That's about the one place they make sense, and not just cos of covid. I doubt I'm the only one here who's picked something up in GP's waiting room or in a hospital. If masks reduce that, then in those settings they should stay. Feck anywhere else unless people want to themselves.

Rte have zero balance in this article! Government are signing off on this today end of! There’s absolutely nobody telling the vulnerable to stop wearing masks or from being cautious! Let society decide! Funny these groups were probably the ones saying to follow NPHET advice religiously now don’t want it to be followed!

Get the KN95 masks on if you think you might need one. Otherwise lets get on with it.

Did anyone hear the woman on Matt Cooper? Dear god some people have lost the plot completely.

"masks have saved my life over the last two years"

"if someone is standing behind me in a bank maskless, I'd have to run out the door"

People have been sectioned for less.

My reasons:

The get extremely uncomfortable in warm conditions.

Constant fogging of glasses.

I want to see other humans' faces.

I find it hard to hear what others are saying at times.

They're something I'd never get used to. It might come as a shock to you but everyone isn't the same. Just because you don't struggle with them, doesn't mean others don't.

Good riddance to them.